Re: booting the T1000

[Chris Newport <crn@netunix.com>]

David S. Miller wrote:

>The default inetd package in Ubuntu, from iputils, is simply buggy,
>because it sets it's sockets to non-blocking and leaves that setting
>on the socket when it passes the connection on to the real application
>from inetd.  Applications expect the socket to be in blocking mode.
>As a result, tftpd craps out because it unexpectedly gets -EAGAIN on a
>read().
>
>To be honest this is a horrible selection of a default inetd
>implementation, netkit-inetd is probably what should be used instead.
>
>  
>
Is this really the root of the issue ?.
For about the last 5 years I have suffered similar issues with tftpd in 
Slackware, Solaris, and NetBSD, all of which use different inetd 
implementations.

Running tftpd standalone has always fixed it.

I could be wrong, but there seem to be generic issues running tftpd via 
inetd, often only intermittently reproduceable.